Vena Nicea

Salt, mist and starlight Bisexual Biologist Scotland

[wordsnquotes]

My waking and sleeping seem mixed together. I’m walking in a dream half the time, and sleeping through reality the other half.

Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning (via wordsnquotes)

[lsleofskye]

Crystal cave on Lake Baikal, Siberia. | ted.ns

[drmartensofficial]

TWO TONE: 80s new-wave style is taken to the next level with monochrome studded creepers and Dr. Martens Originals styles decorated with hearts, aces, skulls and spades

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[ireth-alcarin]

[vena-nicea]

Alone in the office

[anarchyisfunandfree]

I think I was born in the wrong generation. Wish I coulda been a 24ft tall fungus spire in the Silurian Period.

[koredzas]

School of Hieronymus Bosch - The Garden of Eden. 1520

[lvndscpe]

Zermatt, Switzerland | by Joshua Fuller

[lionofchaeronea]

A Village in the Snow (Kambara), from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido, Hiroshige, after 1833

[lsleofskye]

Untitled | lloydmeudell

[marinawoznjuksworld]

[quiet-nymph]

Photography © Patrick | @germanroamers

[themotivationjournals]

I have sea foam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

Jean Cocteau, Le testament d’Orphée  (via down-the-rabbith0le)

[ramirezerick]

Fall in Oregon

[photography-cnl]

Spellbinding Photographs of the Faroe Island by Merlin Kafka 

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[photography-cnl]

Otherworldly Landscape Photography by Dylan Furst Captures Kerouac’s Adventures On the Road

Afficher davantage

[pez-uzi-deactivated20160424]

Places where reality is a bit altered:

• any target • churches in texas • abandoned 7/11’s • your bedroom at 5 am • hospitals at midnight • warehouses that smell like dust • lighthouses with lights that don’t work anymore • empty parking lots • ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods • rooftops in the early morning • inside a dark cabinet

[solareveille]

playgrounds at night

rest stops on highways

deep in the mountains

[ghostfiish]

early in the morning wherever it’s just snowed

trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic

schools during breaks

those little beaches right next to ferry docks

bowling alleys

[genesisdoes-moved]

unfamiliar mcdonalds on long roadtrips

your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep

laundromats at midnight

[coolpepcat-deactivated20190924]

what the fuck

[ringingofraevolution]

galeries in art museums that are empty except for you 

the lighting section of home depot

stairwells

[doomgeneration1995]

•hospital waiting rooms •airports from midnight to 7am • bathrooms in small concert venues

[midtownsparker]

I just got the weirdest feeling I swear

[the-crepes-of-wrath]

OK LISTEN THERE ARE REASONS FOR THIS!!!

A lot of these places are called liminal spaces - which means they are throughways from one space to the next. Places like rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports feel weird when you’re in them because their existence is not about themselves, but the things before and after them. They have no definitive place outside of their relationship to the spaces you are coming from and going to. Reality feels altered here because we’re not really supposed to be in them for a long time for think about them as their own entities, and when we do they seem odd and out of place.

The other spaces feel weird because our brains are hard-wired for context - we like things to belong to a certain place and time and when we experience those things outside of the context our brains have developed for them, our brains are like NOPE SHIT THIS ISN’T RIGHT GET OUT ABORT ABORT. Schools not in session, empty museums, being awake when other people are asleep - all these things and spaces feel weird because our brain is like “I already have a context for this space and this is not it so it must be dangerous.” Our rational understanding can sometimes override that immediate “danger” impulse but we’re still left with a feeling of wariness and unease. 

Listen I am very passionate about liminal spaces they are fascinating stuff or perhaps I am merely a nerd. 

[sp1ne-sh0t]

I, for one, appreciate your passion for liminal spaces and thank you for explaining it to the rest of us.

[silent-wordsmith]

Okay, I love everything about this, but is anyone gonna talk about why Target is on the list? I’m not saying it doesn’t belong there, I’m just wondering. Since it’s neither a  liminal space nor a place out of context.

Come on, Science Side. Science me.